Sentence examples for changing alliances from inspiring English sources
As many as 30 militia groups competed for local support and resources, with rapidly changing alliances and fissures.
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has said that the Afghan habit of changing alliances makes it a dangerous place for foreigners.
Afghanistan's doughty warriors have a tradition of changing alliances, but success will require both military operations focused on the insurgent leadership and, even more important, incentives for fighters at the local level.
The narrative races forward with no scene longer than a few pages, as it cuts back and forth among the oddballs and their changing alliances and evolving schemes for self-aggrandizement and the destruction of their enemies.
Behind the rather thin public front, then, quite different philosophical projects were being pursued by the leading participants with, moreover, changing alliances.
In order to do that, researchers need more data on daily death rates and geographical variations in violence as they relate to close mayoral elections, government crackdowns on crime, diversions of drug traffic, and changing alliances and rivalries between cartels.
The shift in architectural focus reflected changing political alliances, as James V had formed a close alliance with France during his reign.
Genes might be coexpressed in one condition and not in the others, changing their alliances according to the dynamically arising demands of the organism that recruits and dissolves teams of coregulated genes for currently required tasks.
To no avail: In ever-changing alliances, gang bosses and self-proclaimed guerrilla leaders alternatively share the government's bribes or fight over them.
I'm certain, though, that it will be the same gaggle at the track next week, negotiating ever-changing alliances while the rest of Bishkek sleeps.
The story -- with its confusing off-stage battles and ever-changing alliances -- is hard enough to track, especially without compelling emotional and dramatic reasons for why Cleopatra and Antony behave as they do.
